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Prof. Dr. Jochen Leidner

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Teaching and research areas

  • Language processing/computational linguistics (NLP/CL)
  • Search engines/information systems/information retrieval (IR)
  • Machine learning (ML)
  • Risk identification and applications (finance, insurance and management)
  • Development of spatial knowledge (e.g. geocoding)
  • Project management and methodologies
  • Technology & Ethics

Courses

  • Introduction to artificial intelligence
  • Data science with insurance applications
  • Ethics & AI

Functions

Within the university

  • Founding member, KI Center
  • Member of the "Ideas Management" and "Entrepreneurship" strategy groups
  • Founding member, Center for Responsible Artificial Intelligence (2021-2024)
  • Faculty Council of Economic Sciences (2024, 2022)

Outside the university

  • Reproducibility Co-Chair, BCS European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2028), Porto, Portugal (2026-2028)
  • Co-Organizer, ACM World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2027), Dublin, Ireland (2026-2027)
  • Software Demonstrations Co-Chair, EACL 2026, Rabat, Morocco (2025-2026)
  • External member of the Advisory Board, AI Master's programs at OTH Amberg-Weiden
  • Reviewer/reviewer for: DFG, DAAD, BMBF,
  • Award Chair: BCS/Microsoft Karen Spärck Jones Award for Young Scientists (2019-2021)
  • Member, Board of the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG)
  • LinkedIn Alumni Community Manager: "DAAD" and University of Cambridge ("CL Ring")
  • Scientific expert (reviewer): European Commission (FP7, FP7, HE)

Projects

  • VoLL AI (chatbot for AI teaching, analytics of lecture recordings, thematic segmentation/classification)
  • MethodLab (ML project methodologies & software tools)
  • DE-RISK (risk mitigation through computer-aided risk analysis for the insurance industry, the financial sector and the public sector)
  • QLabel ("nutrition labels" with multidimensional content evaluation of web content)

Short vita

  • Since 03/2021: Research professorship "Explainable and Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Insurance" at the Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts
  • Since 2017: Visiting Professor of Data Analytics, University of Sheffield, Department of Computer Science
  • 2008-2021: Scientist (later Senior ~), then Research Director R&D, Thomson Reuters
  • 2010-2013: Establishment of an innovation team in Zug, Switzerland
  • 2013-2021: Establishment and management of an applied research and development team in London, UK
  • 2007: PhD in Computer Science, University of Edinburgh (funded by a DAAD scholarship)
  • 2002: M.Phil. Computer Speech, Text and Internet Technologies, University of Cambridge
  • 1998-2000: Software developer, SAP AG
  • 1998: M.A. Computer Linguistics, English Studies, Computer Science at the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
  • 1993-1998: Studied at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and Lancaster University (supported by a DAAD scholarship)

Memberships

  • Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS)
  • Panel Chair, Microsoft-BCS/BCS-IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award (2020-2022)
  • Member of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)
  • Member of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
  • Member of the German Informatics Society (GI)
  • Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)